Las Vegas police shoot, kill man holding woman at gunpoint

LAS VEGAS (KLAS) — Las Vegas police shot and killed a man who was holding a woman at gunpoint in an apartment on Tuesday morning.

LVMPD officers responded to the 9200 block of West Russell Road, near South Fort Apache Road, at around 7:30 a.m. after a 911 call saying someone was pointing a gun at another person, according to Captain Ryan Wiggins with the LVMPD Internal Oversight and Constitutional Policing Bureau.

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Arriving officers heard arguing coming from an apartment at the location. A woman opened the door to the apartment, and an officer saw a man pointing a firearm at her from inside the apartment, Wiggins said.

The officer then shot at the suspect, hitting him. The suspect was taken into custody, and medical personnel responded and took him to a local hospital, where he was pronounced dead…

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